I refused the draft also, but that's another story. I guess they didn't catch you.
Fact it that it was a choice few were able to make. Many died because of it. Many killed. Hundreds of thousands had their youth stolen from them for an evil war.
Sanders was cheated twice and did not fight twice.
Voted for him when I lived in Vermont and worked for him for both presidential elections. His run proved nothing except that money and power will do what they want. He is nothing but a distraction in the long run.
The author is right about the ten companies.
https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-food-industry-2016-9
You can nit-pick about what is food and what isn't — but these behemoths have their claws in everything from farming to the chains of supply.
You also seemed to miss that the author wrote about WORKING at Amazon—not using their services! That is where surveillance is going on and it is being picked up by every corporation—as the monopolies grow and get more unchecked power.
Ukraine was ranked 126 in the culture of corruption and then went to 116.
With all the influence of the US and billions of dollars of weapons I'm sure they'll go right back up. Vogue model Zelenskyy was rushing around trying to hide the corruption for weeks before the visit from the West. And his was reported in the NYTimes - THE narrative pushing military-industrial-complex rag.
You have known "dozens" of people who started with nothing...bla bla bla. Wow—dozens.
Again, your special bubble. (There are 335 million people in the USA, and I'd not like to see your judgement on those for whom the farce of the American dream hasn't worked.)
You don't seem to perceive the role of luck in our visit to the planet. Not everybody has the gifts or privileges—or LUCK— that you have had. Circumstance is a bitch.
There is a difficult dark work out there and what ScottCDunn was writing about is the increasing power of corporate greed on human lives—and the technology that does the dirt work on people.
It is sinister and individual shoulders to the wheel can correct it only so much.
Sure the ego thrives on thinkingt that it's all because of "individual agency and responsibility"—will and determination is all it took to get you where you are. Just like the billionaires with an Ayn Rand book on the nightstand.
Unacknowledged privilege is a dangerous thing
Let me quote Boris (Larry David) from the film "Whatever Works"
"And don't kid yourself. Because its by no means up to your own human ingenuity. A bigger part of your existence is luck, than you'd like to admit. Christ, you know the odds of your fathers one sperm from the billions, finding the single egg that made you. Don't think about it, you'll have a panic attack."
